MODELING PROCESSES IN ACQUISITION OF FEARS - VICARIOUS ELECTRODERMAL CONDITIONING TO FEAR-RELEVANT STIMULI
MODELING PROCESSES IN ACQUISITION OF FEARS - VICARIOUS ELECTRODERMAL CONDITIONING TO FEAR-RELEVANT STIMULI
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DOI:
10.1037/0022-3514.36.3.271
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
OHMAN, A
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作者:
HYGGE, S;OHMAN, A
Describes an experiment with 72 university students in which fear-relevant (snakes, spiders, and rats) and fear-irrelevant (flowers, mushrooms, and berries) pictures were compared as conditioned and instigating stimuli in a vicarious classical conditioning paradigm with skin conductance responses as the dependent variable. A female confederate model and an S watched the pictures side by side. After a few stimulus presentations, the experimenter (E) interrupted to investigate alleged overreactions of the model to one of the stimulus classes. The model then vividly described a phobia for this object, which was to serve as a vicarious instigating stimulus. The experiment continued for a few conditioning trials, and then the E announced that the disturbing stimulus would be omitted before the 2nd part of the experiment. There was no effect of stimulus content on vicariously instigated responses, although significant overall instigation was observed. However, the responses to the stimulus that was paired with the model's phobic stimulus, that is, the vicariously conditioned responses, failed to extinguish during the 2nd part of the experiment when it was fear-relevant but extinguished immediately when it was fear-irrelevant.(26 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)